@KBFloYd:

I already have the two systems. That's the problem. I paid hundreds of dollars for both. I just think they're gonna have some trouble finding an incentive for people dump a couple hundred more on yet another system. Being able to play console games on the go is cool, but not especially useful or worth the price of admission for a lot of people.

What else is there? I already own consoles to play the new Zelda, Skyrim remake, and games like Splatoon and Mario Kart.

So it turns out all the rumors about cartridges and mobile consoles were right. It's definitely a cool idea, but I'm kind of iffy on it. I mean, it's only especially useful if you travel a lot and want to game on the go, right? For those of us that just want to game on the couch, it's gonna be hard to find a reason for dropping another few hundred bucks.

Jeez, there's a lot of negativity here. Sure, no one should be getting themselves excited for any game that has been development hell as long as this one was. But we can at least be cautiously optimistic. There really still haven't been many games like Ico or Shadow of the Colossus since Team Ico dropped off the map, and it's still a cool concept. If done right, it could be a good little adventure game.

I think you're being a bit hasty on calling the end of the 3DS. It's still selling decent, and more importantly, games are still doing well. Developers and publishers are going to keep putting out games for it as long as they keep selling. I expect the 3DS is going to be with us and getting consistent releases for at least another year, maybe longer. Sort of like how back when the PS2 kept chugging on along even after the PS3 released. Besides, it's still Nintendo's only fallback if the Switch under performs.

But on topic, the WiiU is about as disappointing as it could have been, and easily Nintendo's worst. Good riddance. Hope they manage to turn things around with the Switch. It'd be nice to be excited about Nintendo again.

What?

I remember the first demos and trailers of the Tomb Raider reboot were very similar. People called those out for being nothing but QTE's and scripted events (albeit, much more interesting than the ones we saw here), and the developers stressed again and again at the time that the game would be a lot more than that.

And they were right. Tomb Raider turned out to be a whole lot more than QTE's. I'm willing to trust the developers this time. They delivered with the last game. But, yeah, I don't understand why they'd show something so samey and boring in the demo when they supposedly have so much more.

Rushing to get a new console out probably isn't their best strategy, either. Releasing a new console when there's no demand for one, so early that Wii U owners don't feel like dumping another few hundred dollars a new console so soon, and so early that the PS4 and X1 owners are content to stick with their current systems because they're still getting new games would be another disaster.

A new console isn't a reset switch, and Nintendo can't simply shrug off the Wii U and expect fans to keep coming back for more. Nintendo has a difficult couple of years ahead of them and no easy solutions.

You're right, if Nintendo released a new console now or in the near future, it would be a total flop. People who bought the Wii U aren't going to be willing to drop another couple hundred dollars on another console this soon, and PS4 and X1 owners wouldn't have much reason to adopt.

Nintendo will have to wait until people have gotten tired of current consoles and there is demand for a new console, and they'll have to wait until they have software ready for the new console's release.

If the NX is a console, we won't be seeing it for while. Nintendo dumping the Wii U and trying to immediately move on to a new console would be the worse thing they could do right now.

It looks fun, but after a five year wait, it's incredibly underwhelming.

Part of the problem is that Nintendo is not very good at promoting their games these days. Most people are confused about what the new Metroid and Paper Mario and Zelda and Animal Crossing are. I don't really understand how these games will play and Nintendo hasn't done a job communicating that. Similarly, a lot of people are confused about how the new Star Fox's controls work and whether they work at all. And most of these games, while being new entires in series we all love, are much smaller, blockier, and duller than what any of us were hoping for, and at the same time take these franchises in weird new directions that no one asked for. We wanted a new Metroid Prime, but we didn't want a weird 3v3 soccer game. We wanted a new Zelda, but no one was asking for a Zelda game focused on co op.

I think the new Star Fox and Zelda will probably be very good games, but Nintendo hasn't done much to get me excited about them.